InDesign: Create Beautiful Page Layouts Efficiently

❝ Our department has really responded well to the training sessions. Thank you so much for providing a valuable service. We really enjoy spending time with Beverly. She’s knowledgeable, but humble, and always so appreciative of our Trader Joe’s snacks!! Ha!
- Bobbi L., designer, Trader Joe's

Upcoming Dates

Wed-Fri, May 22-24, 2024

8:00 AM - 3:00 PM Pacific Time
Trainer: Beverly

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Tue-Thu, August 6-8, 2024

8:00 AM - 3:00 PM Pacific Time
Trainer: Beverly

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Cost

Price per person: $995
Length of class:three days
Version covered:CC 2023
Delivery format:live over Zoom


Description

This three-day class, taught by an Adobe Certified Instructor, teaches you all the essential features of Adobe InDesign. After learning to navigate the application’s interface, you will master the tools necessary to build single and multi-page print documents, including graphic objects, threaded text, styles, and master pages. You will learn to use layers, select and export color, add book features like page numbering and tables of contents, export files to PDF, and prepare documents for output by a service bureau.


Prerequisites

This class is ideally suited for people with at least good computer skills. Word processing or page layout experience is helpful, but not required.


Outline

Application Overview
- workspaces
- best practices for panel management
- tools overview
- understand the control panel & properties panel

Working With Objects
- understand frames
- object positioning and aligning
- scale, resize, and rotate
- selection vs. direct selection tool
- guides and smart guides
- stroke and corner options
- layers and transparency
- anchored objects

Working With Text
- place and import text
- paragraph vs. character formatting
- text wrap
- text threading
- type on a path
- QR codes
- paragraph styles & character styles
- nested styles
- next style
- smart text reflow

Working With Graphics
- import images
- the Links panel
- understand image file formats
- understand image resolution
- image transformation

Color
- understand color separation
- fill vs. stroke
- swatches panel vs. color panel
- tint swatches
- gradient swatches
- CMYK vs. RGB
- spot color vs. process color

Multiple Page Documents
- pages panel
- parent pages
- add & delete pages
- automatic page numbering

Preflight
- live preflight
- the Preflight panel
- packaging

Printing & Exporting
- print options
- PDF export
- JPEG export

Book
- numbering and sections
- footers
- text variables
- cross references
- footnotes
- table of contents

Advanced Content
- tables
- data merge
- GREP
- scripts


Printable Course Description


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